On his studio door there was a small placard that read "If it is worth doing, it is worth doing badly".
I absolutely love playing the piano and i also absolutely ABHOR it with a passion. It is like having an abusive wife that cheats on you and makes you insanely angry and yet the next day, there you are giving her flowers only for the same thing to happen and you just put up with it. This exactly describes the way i feel about piano. I stop practicing while feeling absolutely angry, like today, yet i come back the next day for more.
Why do you say this??
"There's always McDonald's"Savage
people think they can gain sympathy in their mediocre piano ability by telling people they are rubbish,
adodd that is so spot on the money it ain't even funny.lol..
There has to be the occasional wisdom that comes out of my rambling. I would not mean to offend or sound so harsh, but complainers and whiners hit a nerve for me.
It is called 'fishing' for compliments. And very bad done in a backhand disrespectful way. To tell us who try hard at piano and may not be at conservatory level, to hear one say "I'm garbage" what are you saying I am then? Lot of immature kids on this forum
This is not working out like she thought it was going to be.
Like I said in a previous response, I was desperate. I wasn't trying to say that people who don't go to conservatories a garbage bit rather I was explaining a very destructive mindset I had when watching lang lang get criticized harshly, trying to compare the criticism he currently recieveds with the criticism I would get if that was me on the piano. I realize it's a very stupid and unhelpful thing to do that and very discouraging.
My professor (who once used to be a concert pianist) said even these etudes takes years to be into your hands , aged well and ready for a respectable performance in front of any audience.
this is an often skipped concept in teaching... the "aging" of a piece in your hands... I mean you can play it in a couple of months but it's not going to hold a candle to what it will sound like when you have been playing that same etude for say 5 or 6 years. Wait till you have pieces that have been in your fingers 20-30+ years.
I can definitely attest to that. In fact, sometimes a piece get better over time WITHOUT the benefit of practice.
see, now that's the kind of thing only a longtimer can know and understand. That is so very true and yet people just look at you in disbelief when you try and explain. How can you get better without practicing it? .
That is why at one point i got so frustrated that I decided to talk about it so that I can vent because if I would of just kept quiet and let this happen every single day eventually it would affect me as a person, and that's what I want to avoid. I'm sorry if I came out as a complainer or a whiner, I just wanted some tips from people who have experienced something similar and how to cope with this form of stress. I do have a plan B and no....... Its not McDonald's.. That much I can say was a bit harsh since it implies I couldn't do anything else. But a change in career and doing piano on the side could be possible.
I think it's only logical. But what I personally lack is the patience to wait and let the pieces mature because I know after the break I need to repeat some of the learning/memorizing process. When I finally get to it it isn't that bad really, but my natural unwillingness to repeat work already done once has to be overcome first. So I often spend far too much time trying to perfect something when I should just leave it alone to perfect itself
see, now that's the kind of thing only a longtimer can know and understand. That is so very true and yet people just look at you in disbelief when you try and explain. How can you get better without practicing it? . the imagination bit is right on the money, too. All those fantasies of being at Carnegie Hall playing the Hungarian Rhapsody 2 are NOT a waste of time...lol. Dare to dream.
My fantasy was just being able to play the coda of the Gm Ballade effortlessly, yet powerfully. I would sit down and just imagine it happening. I finally got to the point where I could see myself playing it the way I wanted to. Funny thing was, I recall going into a practice room and just THROWING my hands in the general direction of the notes, making horrid sounds and dissonances, but obtaining the FEEL of the arms doing what was necessary to move in a relaxed manner. I hope that makes sense. Hitting the 'right notes' was causing tension. Once I removed that tension from the equation, I get the right FEEL with the WRONG notes... then knew better what to look for in the final rendition.
Funny thing was, I recall going into a practice room and just THROWING my hands in the general direction of the notes, making horrid sounds and dissonances, but obtaining the FEEL of the arms doing what was necessary to move in a relaxed manner.
Topic: i want to go to a music school but i am absolute garbage...... 